The conjectures on physical mechanism of vertebrate nervous system

As a scientific researcher not professional on biology, I tried to discuss the physical mechanism of vertebrate nervous system in physical aspect, such as the physical field and frequency of information carrier of vertebrate nerve, the generation and transmission of neural signals. The main conjectures are proposed as the followings: One of the conjectures, the physical field of vertebrate neural signals should be the high frequency electromagnetic field from Terahertz to infrared, with the most possible frequency range from 0.5 to 100 THz. The electromagnetic wave from 0.5 to 100 THz could be named as the generalized Terahertz electromagnetic wave, and the related researches could be called as THz Biology. Two of the conjectures, the generation, transmission, and coupling of electromagnetic signals in biological nerves are on the micro-nano scale, some even at the level of single-molecule structure, which should conform to electromagnetic fields and quantum theory. The quantum energy states of ions and molecules in the nervous system are key factors for signal generation, amplification and coupling. The storage of biological information should also be supported by molecular quantum energy state. Research on quantum theory should be the focused. Three of the conjectures, Nodes of Ranvier on the axon of the nervous system are the “Relay Amplifier” for neural signal with strong automatic regulation characteristics, which should be the main energy consumption in the nervous system. The nerve cells are the basic unit with the functions of information storage, processing and exchanging. Four of the conjectures, ambient temperature has an important influence on the generation and transmission of THz signal in the nervous system. The transmission velocity of THz signal in the nervous system varies with the temperature. When the temperature is over high or low, the THz signal in the nervous system could not be effectively transmitted. Five of the conjectures, there are abundant THz electromagnetic information in organisms, which can be detected and characterized to diagnose the biology statuses such as health status, so as to discovery and invent new diagnostic methods, including active diagnosis and passive diagnosis. The passive diagnosis will not interfere with organisms which has the distinguished advantage compared with other methods. Besides, the THz electromagnetic signal will interact with the organisms under certain conditions, which is likely to become an important means for future treatment, as well as an important physical factor that should be paid attention to and protected from diseases. Six of the conjectures, the human nervous system is the most scientific, efficient and organic integrated network information system in the world. The scientific researchers should pay special attention to learning from human body to develop scientific and efficient network information system with the characteristics of human nervous system. Based on limited research, there are not sufficient studies on the above conjectures. The main purpose of paper is to arouse discussion, and I also hope researchers in the field of biology can do more research from the perspective of physics.